Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks.

  • Franks, John, M.D.
Date:
M.DCC.XC. [1790]
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Credit: Observations on animal life, and apparent death, from accidental suspension of the function of the lungs, : with remarks on the Brunonian system of medicine. / By John Franks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that happinefs which other means had failed to obtain. CASE IV. ON the 25th day of May, 1768, about two Miles from Leiden, as the Lrekfchuit from Delft was palling on, the halling-rope broke, and four pafien- gers, then upon deck, fell overboard. Three of them were foon got out; but the fourth, named Jan Spyker, a Haber- dalher of Amfterdam, went to the bot- tom : he was, when found and brought on fhore, to all appearance dead. Four Charity-Boys belonging to Amfterdam attempted to recover him, and brought him to life again by the means directed in the Society’s Inflrudtions, 1 CASE V. • AT Amjlerdam, on the 10th of Au- gust, 1768, one Lambert Luebbes from Balk in Frifeland, threw himfelf into the Town-ditch, in a fit of defpair, and